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Bryan Anselm's Plastic Waste Photo Essay Across New York and Quebec

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Bryan Anselm's Plastic Waste Photo Essay Across New York and Quebec

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Bryan Anselm photographed plastic waste and the people responding to it across New York City and Quebec over several months. The essay runs in The Guardian and uses the density and transparency of NYC's streetscape, clear recycling bags, grid streets, gutters as its visual structure.

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